[freudling]

What to get? I am not going to buy a Hi-8 (or shoud I consider it?). I am looking to buy a miniDV camcorder or Hard Drive. What the hell should I buy? I like Sony. My price point is no more than $500US.

[tooki]

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[hickey]

what are you going to be using it for? Taping family get together, parties, grass growing? Or using it for school/professional use?

[Paco500]

I just bought This.

The list price of $599 should be ignored, I paid $350 which seems to be the going rate.

I bought it mainly becasue is has a lot of features the more well known brands (sony, canon) have adandoned, at least on their moderately priced models. Specifically, I wanted a mic input, an accessory shoe, and top tape loading. I would have preferred a "hot" shoe, but I can live with this.

The piceture is fine, the other features are ok, but to get the stuff I cared about would have cost me 300-500 more from the big boys.

My biggest complaints are the manual cotrol (it's iffy), and the lack of a true wide-screen mode, but for what I'm doing, recording the kids, it's fine.

Another nice and unusal feature is that is has an on-board video light. Not real powerful, only good for 2 meters, but it may come in handy. It's also nice and compact and feels solid